People Behaving Badly

Today I’d like to draw your attention to a few links I’ve collected dealing with various types of bad behavior, ranging from the rude to the evil.

First, we have a hand-written apology with some hand-typed ASCII art (of a three-masted sailing ship, no less) dating from 1934. I have no idea what Bob did to make his profuse apology to Dearest Hazel necessary, but Bob at the very least thought it was bad.

One business professional asked a graphic designer to work for nothing, and the graphic designer didn’t much appreciate the request. The resulting exchange of emails features both professionals behaving rather badly, but it’s pretty funny, if you don’t mind foul language.

Here’s an article explaining research examing the similarities and differences between psychopaths and heroes. They have much more in common than you’d think, which is a little spooky unless you read a lot of comic books. In comic books almost every hero has gone evil at some point or else just has an evil twin.